Remaking the Modern Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo

Name: Remaking the Modern Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
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ISBN: 9780520230460

ISBN-10: 0520230469

ISBN-13: 9780520230460

Edition: 2003

Authors: Farha Ghannam

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In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downtown Cairo to public housing on the outskirts of the city. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the new…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Researching "Modern" Cairo



Relocation and the Creation of a Global City



Relocation and the Daily Use of "Modern" Spaces



Old Places, New Identities



Gender and the Struggle over Public Spaces



Religion in a Global Era



Roads to Prosperity Conclusion: Homes, Mosques, and the Making of a Global Cairo


Notes


Bibliography


Index